Hat-fastener



(No Model.)

0. B-ER KOVITZ. HAT FASTENER.

No. 599,031. Patented Feb. 15, 1898.

THE mums PETERS co PNOTOLITHOY, WASHINGTON u c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BERKOVITZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO MORRIS KAUFMAN, OF BROOKLYN, YORK.

HAT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,031, dated February 15, 1898.

Application filed July 9,1897. Serial No- 643,98l. (No model.)

T at whom it. may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES BERK'OVI TZ, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for Hats, of which the following is a ,full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in theart to which it ap- 1o pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to fastening devices for hats; and the object thereof is to provide improved devices for this purpose, said devices being simple in construction and oper- 5 ation and being adapted to be connectedwith the under side of the rim of a hat and to be operated so as to engage with the hair and to hold the hat in position upon the head.

. The invention is fully disclosed in the fol- 2o lowing specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which Figure 1 is a side view of a hat provided with my improvement; Fig. 2, a bottom plan view thereof, and Fig. 3 a sideview of one of my improved fastening devices and showing a section of the rim of a hat.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts of my improvement are designated by the same numerals of reference in each of the Views, and in said draw ings I have shown a hat consisting of the crown 5'and the rim 6, and in the practice of my invention I secure to the bottom of the rim, adjacent to the crown-opening and on the 0p- 3 5 posite sides thereof, two tubular holders 7, and thesetubular holders are provided on their outer sides with longitudinal slots 8, and mounted in each end thereof are curved wires or rods 9, which are provided at their 40 outer ends with inwardly-directed hooks 10 and at their inner ends with headed pins 11, which project through the slots 8 in the tubularholders 7 and by means of which said wires or rods are operated. I The normal position of the wires or rods 9 when they are not in use is that shown at the left of Fig. 2, and when in use they occupy the position shown at the right of Fig. 2, and

in practice the hat is placed upon the head and the wires or rods 9. are projected, as shown at the right of Fig. 2', and in this operation the hooks 10 at the outer ends thereof engage with the hair and securely hold the hat upon the head.

The holders 7 are secured to the rim of the hat by means of screws 12, which pass through said rim and are provided with-nuts or similar devices 13, or this construction may be made in any desired manner.

My improvement is simple in construction and operation and well adapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended, and it will be apparent that changes inand modifications of the construction described may be made withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 7 In a hat-fastener, the combination with a curved tubular holder having longitudinallyextending slots closed at the ends in the outer periphery thereof, said tubular holder being open at both ends, a plurality of screw-threaded projections arranged on the surface there- 7 5 of and adaptedto pass through the rim of the hat, and nuts whereby, in conjunction with said projections, said fastener is secured to the rim of the hat, of awire or rod. mount: ed in each end of said tubular holder, hooks 8o thereon extending inwardly at an angle from said rod, and studs secured to said rods re sp'ectivelyand passed through said slots, whereby said rods may be moved longitudinally, said slots guiding and limiting the movement of said rods, substantially as described. v

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 8th day of July, 1897.

CHARLES BERKOVITZ.

Witnesses:

' O. GERsT,

A. O. VAN BLAROOM. 

